CHANCERY LANE ANTIQUES AND APPRAISALS

Chancery Lane Antiques, which was founded in the fall of 1995, is the outgrowth of a lifetime interest in antique silver. Doris Matthews' mother was in "the business" back in the fifties. Her mother and father started the silver collection at Cheekwood, a local museum. He was president of the English Speaking Union here. When owner Doris Matthews discovered her first pair of Matthew Boulton Old Sheffield salts in England in the late 1950s, a personal passion was born. A summer in London as the guest of a local silver dealer secured her budding interest in Georgian silver especially by Hester Bateman and Paul Storr. Fostered further by the tutelage of her parents, Cornelia and Russell Speights, well-known Nashville collectors, the enthusiastic young Matthews added to her first piece during ensuing travels abroad and went on to minor in art history at Vanderbilt University... Welcome to our updated website! Here you will find a selection of our fine antique silver, Old Sheffield Plate..

Also known as: Chancery Lane Antiques and Appraisals, Inc.